ARRHENIUS FIRST PUBLISHED WORK

ARRHENIUS, SVANTE.

Undersökning med rhetom öfver den Galvaniska Polarisationens Försvinnande i et Polarisationskärl, hvars plattor äro förbundna genom en metallisk ledning.

Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1883. 8vo. Uncut, unopened, without wrappers. No. 7, Vol. 7, 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlingar'. A very fine and clean copy. 36 pp. + 1 plate.

First edition of Arrhenius very first published work.
"After attending the Cathedral School in Uppsala, Arrhenius entered the University of Uppsala at the age of seventeen. He studied mathematics, chemistry, and physics, and passed the candidate's examination in 1878. Arrhenius chose physics as the principal subject for his doctoral study, but he was not satisfied with his chief instructor, Tobias Robert Thalén, Although Thalén was an eminent and competent experimental physicist and lecturer, he was interested only in spectral analysis. Arrhenius went to Stockholm in 1881 with the intention of working under Erik Edlund, physicist of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. The results of his first independent research, entitled "The Disappearance of Galvanic Polarization in a Polarization Vessel, the Plates of Which Are Connected by Means of a Metallic Conductor" [The present work]. (DSB)

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